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Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

Steve — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:34:16 -0000

Who will exploit this first?

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Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

Watch TV — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:09:35 -0000

That's actually quite nice, granted they still have DRM and that it only lets you listen to it 3 times, it's still an improvement and the referral system is a nice change, ITunes would never think about doing this.

Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

Phil — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:25:17 -0000

Luca is right, I was about to say the same thing. It was a German company iirc. Their patent (assuming they had one) may well be sufficiently general that Microsoft's could be shown to infringe on it.

Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

Vote... — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:22:48 -0000

The only cool thing about the Zune is sharing songs between Zune users. To bad Micro$oft nerfed the whole thing by restricting those shared uses to 3.

Dude 1: "Hey duders, what are you guys up too?"

Dude 2 + 3: "I just downloaded a song from his Zune, for free, wirelessly!"

Dude 1: "Awesome, I gotta get one of those."

Dude 2: "Well, you can only listen to it 3 times."

Dude 1: "And you're excited about this feature because...?"

Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

Luca — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:49:53 -0000

Nice, just I think Microsoft copied a (c) web applications strategy publish a few years ago, and some sites a using a similar strategy. like SaySaid.com

Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

quikboy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:27:26 -0000

@Jeremy: But people do buy DRM music through a DRM store. It's called iTunes.

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nullcodes — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:08:37 -0000

Is that an iPod ? To me, that looks more like an iPod nano than a Zune.

Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

Jeremy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:04:22 -0000

This will *never* work. Think about it. Without DRM there is no way to tell if an *.mp3 is legal or not.

If they pay folks for sharing non-DRM'ed stuff, then any fool can get a living out of MS by simply swapping files around on the net. Crazy.

This proposal, (like most of MS's stuff), relies on the assumption that everyone will buy their DRM'ed music through a DRM'ed store and that MS will be able to look through your Zune HD and examine files etc. Also, if you read the patent, it says MS is thinking of attaching advertisements on those songs before they allow you to transfer them. Greaatt! *roll eyes*

So basically this would work in North Korea or some other Nazi-esque country.

Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

Hari — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:59:44 -0000

How many users are they talking about? 5?

Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

Steve O'Hear (editor) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:16:54 -0000

Sounds like it ;)

Re: Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?

guise — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:26:24 -0000

I can get paid for pirated music?